All,     this thread may be inappropriate but I am bottoming out right now and this community has always provided me with so much, I have a need to express my feelings and I know you are all awesome people...   My son was involved in a tragic and pointless car accident and passed away at a...

Hey all,     I'm on my third set of NiMH batteries in the PPAv2 I built back in '05. I had to make some minor changes to the fast charging configuration to lower the upper max temp threshold to 112 F. These eneloop cells cant tolerate the temps the old green skin cells I had in there. These...

Pete, cetoole, Tangent, AMB, ???    nothing?  I have been building your stuff for years !!! What? You guys are the GODs of DIY!!!  tomb!!!  You have something to give us! Where are you guys? I want to start a petition to get the monsters of DIY back here with the next level of headphone...

Hey guys,     I have some questions about drawing single sided PCBs...I have searched the web for answers but most are tutorials with limited or no quality answers to my questions... for some reason I've become obsessed with making my single side PCBs as small as I can get them, and using a...

hey all,    the last 4 tube amps I've built were constructed on PCbs I etched myself. I used a ground plane in all of them and every one of them is silent, no hum. I have tried various impedance phones with each ranging from 64 Ohms to 300 Ohms and the result is the same. I did some homework on...

Well, I was surfing the web and came across this amp... So I checked my stash and found I had all the parts or combinations of parts to build it...sounds pretty good. I etched up 3 boards and built it this evening...It uses a high quality 12VDC wall wart I had laying around...      

I got an email from Allied about these stomp boxes... CLICK HERE to go to the Hammond site. I think these are pretty cool enclosures.

Found this at the app store...pretty handy. Oscillator 1.1.1

whatever

Hey all,     I am not much of a drinker but I have been buying my father in law single malt scotch for Fathers day and his birthday for the past few years. Like anything else, I figure anything worth doing is worth obsessing over. So a few years ago I googled single malt scotch and found the...

Guys,     I want to learn how to program the Amtel ATtiny25. I bought a dev board and serial programmer from sparkfun and a handful of attiny25 DIP8 chips. I also downloaded AVR studio 5.0. I have never written code and I am completly lost...I joined AVRfreaks forum hoping to find someone to...

I have an older Millett Hybrid running 12FM6s for sale over in the for sale forum and I was asked if it could drive Beyer T1s...I dont know. It drives my HD-600s very nicely. I am hoping for one of the gurus to answer the question so my buyer can see for himself what the opinions are...

This is my first real effort to build a nice model...if it goes well,            I hope my wife will get me an airbrush...Millenium Falcon from a 1983 kit. (print date from the instructions)    

I found this sketch in a binder stuffed in my closet...I think its about 3 years old. I should build this...    

I was wondering about building a load tester for AAA cells and AA cells. At work we use an old school portable tester with coils inside similar to toaster coils that we connect to an automotive type 12V battery with large alligator clips, it has a meter on the face that shows the static voltage...

I stumbled across this... CLICK HERE

I found this handy tube substitute search page...hope you find it useful

opinions?

started another seaFLIR II connector today...the last picture was doctored up in MS paint to help me get the sockets in the right locations.

my girlfriend got a new laptop using vista OS that runs a 64 bit web browser??? she cant install adobe flashplayer, so some of the apps on myspace wont work...how can she run a 32 bit browser? thanks in advance...

...Seems kinda pricey though... LINK

Got this tin at a local department store in Datona Beach...had a pair of boxers in it with the same design all over them. Its about 6 inches on a side, and 3 inches deep. Now, what to build in it?

I found this info and hope it my be useful to you... Electronics 27

anybody built this??? LINK I guess it wont do headphones though...

This should be able to control a small computer fan to keep an amp enclosure cool. The 5K trimmers at R3 and R10 will allow the fan to spin very quietly. The 10K NTC thermistor would touch a heatsink.